Interview with Bill Bowdoin

Bill Bowden joined ROTC while a student at the University of Georgia. He served in the First Aviation Battalion as pilot of a "Huey" Helicopter in Vietnam for a year starting September, 1967. He has many stories about his varied missions including the "bloodhound" mission and how the Viet Cong figured out a map of his base camp down to the bunk he slept in.

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